RFD America

Have you seen Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack lately? He's positively glowing, radiant even. It's the aura of creation, the expectancy of blessings and praise. And what, you ask, has the good Secretary and the USDA done to facilitate such emanations? They've spent $ 2.08 billion of taxpayer money for "Recovery Act water and environmental project loans and grants, benefiting people throughout the country."¹ Now, that's something to glow about. Who needs a chicken in every pot when we can have water and environmental projects throughout the country and money for everyone?

But a closer look at how the money is being spent reveals how racist progressive policies enslave African-American communities while forcing European-American communities to pay for the slavery of another era. The unequal distribution of USDA funds falls solidly along ethnic lines: in every case, African-American communities received more grant money than loan money, with lower expectations of outcomes than European-American communities who are expected to pay nearly all of the money back, and provide more services to more people with less money.

Here are a couple of examples:

The West Dallas Water Authority in Selma, Alabama-- $1.2 million loan and $1.8 million grant to expand the water system because it is a persistent poverty county.
The county is also predominantly African-American, with less than 1/4 of the population identified as European-American.² The expansion will provide potable drinking water to approximately 100 new residential customers in an under-served area of Dallas County. The money will also be used to buy generators serve as backup power supply to provide more reliable water service during natural disasters and power outages.